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Phys. Rev. D 63, 126004 (2001) [7 pages]

Traveling faster than the speed of light in noncommutative geometry

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Akikazu Hashimoto*
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

N. Itzhaki
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106

Received 3 January 2001; published 21 May 2001

We study various dynamical aspects of solitons in noncommutative gauge theories and find surprising results. Among them is the observation that the solitons can travel faster than the speed of light for arbitrarily long distances.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.63.126004
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.126004
PACS:
11.25.Sq

*Email address: aki@ias.edu

Email address: sunny@physics.ucsb.edu